Why is that every time the ideological left wins and election, the bills that pass end up being conservatively driven anyway? Don't tell me America is a conservative country. Most Americans don't know what they really want which is why the conservatives find it so easy to get things their way. Don't tell me Americans are centrists either. Americans want better health care, good education, and some level of assistance in times of disaster. The centrists on the other hand just tried to cut these things in the stimulus bill. Americans are not conservatives and they are not false centrists either. Americans have liberal aspirations but for any the talk of individualism in American society, like herd animals they wait to see which way the everyone else is going before they act. Middle America is waiting for someone or something to let them know it OK to fight for the things they want. Can anyone tell me what that trigger mechanism is that sets them fighting for what they want? The rich have been behaving like a pack of wolves picking off the weak from the herd. The ideological liberal is loosing even though they won the election. You can be damn sure conservatives would be having it their way and only their way had they won the last election. I have to confess even though I'm angry, I'm waiting for everyone else to move too. Well, not exactly, I'm working towards alternative energy production but that's empty without health care reform and a dedication to better eduction. I feel so helpless I could scream. People's apathy makes puke.